Western Europe Public Cloud Market Shares, 1H20: Cloud Providers Accelerated Their Growth due to COVID-19

This IDC Market Share discusses trends and vendor dynamics in the public cloud market in Western Europe."Public cloud is growing in double digits in Western Europe with the most important cloud providers delivering all types of public cloud services. This capability to provide a wide portfolio while differentiating and customizing products enabled global cloud providers to lead in this space," said Carla Arend, program director, IDC European Cloud and Multicloud Research.

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Executive Summary

Advice for Technology Suppliers

Market Share

Who Shaped the Year

• Amazon Web Services
• Microsoft
• Google Cloud

Market Context

• Significant Market Developments
  • COVID-19 Impact
  • Continued Demand for Computing Power
  • Investments Continued
  • GAIA-X Launch
  • Demand for Support to Use Cloud Efficiently
  • The Impact of Increasing Data Complexity

Methodology

Market Definition

• Infrastructure as a Service
  • IaaS Compute
  • IaaS Storage
  • IaaS Networking
• Software-as-a-Service Applications
• Software-as-a-Service Systems Infrastructure Software

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